proposed Species of the Genus Homo. 41 



.Ethiopian race, or in the southern extremity of Africa, under 

 the tropic, and upon the eastern side, and also some points of 

 the island of Madagascar. 



14. Homo Melanvnus. — This species belongs to Van Die- 

 man's Land and Terra del Fuego, which forms the extreme 

 point of America; and is also found upon the projecting 

 points of the coast or capes of the Island of Formosa, the 

 Philippines, Cochinchina — in the greater part of the islands of 

 Malacca, Borneo, Celebes, Timor, New Guinea, &c. 



15. Homo Hottentotus. — This is the most different from 

 the Japetic species ; and the anatomical characters of these 

 degraded beings, according to M. Bory, lead evidently to con- 

 nect man with the apes. The Hottentot race is confined to 

 the southern and western extremity of the African continent. 



Now, it appears to us that there is nothing very wonderful 

 in this fanciful division of the human race into fifteen species — 

 all of which, were the thing worth the trouble, might be shown 

 to be merely varieties, and some of these not very strongly 

 marked ones. His Homo Colombicus he himself states as a 

 species risen up in North America without the intervention of 

 a second Adam and a transatlantic paradise, by the intercourse 

 of refugees from the different nations of Europe. The facial 

 angle of Camper distinguishes two or three species — crisp hair 

 marks the African negro — and height alone, the chief character 

 rested on for the others, separates the Patagonian of five feet 

 six inches or six feet, from the Esquimaux, whose stature only 

 reaches, according to M. Bory, to four feet and a half. But 

 all these varieties in the appearance of the human frame may, 

 in our mind, be easily accounted for, without the necessity of 

 referring them to separately created families or species as their 

 source. M. Bory seems to have lost sight entirely of the ef- 

 fects of climate, soil, and food, those three great agents in 

 increasing the variety of domestic animals, — the moral effects 

 of education and civilization in moulding even the organic 

 parts of our frame, — and a thousand other circumstances, 

 which, with the important adjunct of time, are, gradually and 

 unseen, perpetually working changes in the animated parts of 

 nature. Take, for instance, our domestic animals — the plants 

 which have been naturalized in our climate — our own nidi- 



